June 2nd
Silent Movie*
US 1976. Twentieth Century Fox/Crossbow. 87m.

An ex-alcoholic film director hits on the idea of making a silent film to save the studio.
A nostalgic idea for a modern silent spoof is given rather lame comic treatment - with rather pointless jokes about silence - but the slapstick sequences are well done (although pretty average by Chaplin's standards), and the guest stars enjoy themselves.

Written by: Mel Brooks, Don Clark, Rudy de Luca, Barry Levinson.
Producer: Michael Hertzberg.
Director: Mel Brooks.
Starring: Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters, Sid Caesar, Harold Gould, Fritz Feld, Carol Arthur; and Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Liza Minnelli, Anne Bancroft, Marcel Marceau (who has the only line of dialogue), Paul Newman.
Photography: Paul Lohmann.
Music: John Morris.